y." The
State Federation of Labor, Charles R. Case, president, at its annual
convention in January, 1910, unanimously adopted with cheers a strong
resolution favoring woman suffrage and urged the local unions to "put
forth their most strenuous efforts to carry the suffrage amendment ...
and make it the prominent feature of their work during the coming
months."

Practically all the newspapers were friendly and featured the news of
the campaign; no large daily paper was opposed. S. A. Perkins,
publisher of eleven newspapers in the State, gave a standing order to
his editors to support the amendment. The best publicity bureau in the
State was employed and for a year its weekly news letter carried a
readable paragraph on the subject to every local paper. Besides this,
"suffrage columns" were printed regularly; there were "suffrage
pages," "suffrage supplements" and even entire "suffrage editions";
many effective "cuts" were used, and all at the expense of the
publishers.

The clergy was a great power. Nearly every minister observed Mrs.
DeVoe's request to preach a special woman suffrage sermon on a Sunday
in February, 1910. All the Protestant church organizations were
favorable. The Methodist Ministerial Association unanimously declared
for the amendment April 11 at the request of Miss Emily Inez Denney.
The African Methodist Conference on August 10 passed a ringing
resolution in favor, after addresses by Mrs. DeVoe and Miss Parker.
The Rev. Harry Ferguson, Baptist, of Hoquiam was very active. In
Seattle no one spoke more frequently or convincingly than the Rev. J.
D. O. Powers of the First Unitarian Church and the Rev. Sidney Strong
of Queen Anne Congregational Church. Other friends were the Rev.
Joseph L. Garvin of the Christian Church, the Rev. F. O. Iverson among
the Norwegians, and the Rev. Ling Hansen of the Swedish Baptist
Church. Mrs. Martha Offerdahl and Mrs. Ida M. Abelset compiled a
valuable campaign leaflet printed in Scandinavian with statements in
favor by sixteen Swedish and Norwegian ministers. The Catholic priests
said nothing against it and left their members free to work for it if
they so desired. Among Catholic workers were the Misses Lucy and Helen
Kangley of Seattle, who formed a Junior Suffrage League. Father F. X.
Prefontaine gave a definite statement in favor of the amendment.
Distinguished persons from outside the State who spoke for it were
Miss Janet Richards of Washington, D. C., the well-kno